In the townland of Ballykenny, County Limerick, a modest earthwork sits in level grazing land, its circular outline still readable in the turf despite centuries of agricultural use pressing in around it. A second ringfort, recorded separately as LI044-048, lies a short distance to the north-north-east, and the proximity of the two raises quiet questions about how this small patch of ground was once organised and inhabited.

A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed farmstead of early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century. Most consist of a raised circular bank and an outer ditch, enclosing a domestic space where a family and their animals would have lived. The Ballykenny example is a relatively modest specimen: a circular area of about twenty-four metres in diameter, defined by a scarped edge rising roughly sixty centimetres, with a width of around two and a half metres. Outside that lies a fosse, a defensive ditch, roughly thirty-five centimetres deep and three and a half metres wide, followed by a counterscarp bank, a low secondary earthwork on the outer edge of the ditch, running from the north-west around to the south-south-west. The interior is level and grassed over. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011, forming part of the wider survey of Limerick's archaeological monuments.

What a visitor will notice on the ground is that a modern field boundary and a watercourse now run directly along the line of the fosse and the outer bank on the south-south-west to north-west arc, meaning that part of the monument's perimeter has been absorbed into the working infrastructure of the farm. The earthworks are low and unspectacular up close, which is part of what makes approaching them with the survey measurements in hand so useful; knowing what to look for in the slight changes of ground level makes the form much easier to read. The site sits in ordinary pasture with no formal access or signage, so permission from the landowner would be the appropriate first step before visiting.